Maybe I would finally get HD, well, maybe not… too much of a pain to get a new TV…
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Russian recluse decliend Fields Medal
Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematician who was widely expected to be one of this year’s winners (see ‘Maths ‘Nobel’ rumoured for Russian recluse’), was indeed honoured at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians. But after a round of applause, president of the International Mathematical Union John Ball said “I regret that Dr Perelman has declined to accept.” No explanation was given.
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new Hello Kitty platinum card, and it comes with conceige service!!
So I considered re-upgrading up to the amex platinum just to get conceige service, but this Hello Kitty card comes with it with no annual fee! 😆
The most personal service?24-hour access to MyConciergesm service is like having your own personal assistant who can help get great seats at entertainment and sporting events, make last-minute dinner reservations, arrange tee times, and more!
The Official Website. Home of Hello Kitty
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Want RSS feeds for vBulletin-powered forums?
This is not new info or anything, so if you already know how to get feeds from vB forums then you can ignore this entry.
I am registered at a fairly large number of forums, I only actively monitor a few of them, which ones of them depends on what I’m into or what I’m looking into buying. 😉 A majority of these Internet forums are powered by vBulletin, and IIRC, RSS feed is enabled by default. Most owners of these forums don’t provide links or advertise the fact that these feeds are enabled, probably because they don’t know about this feature (and Feedburner), or they have board sponsors and assume when people come in via feeds it would bypass their ads. Anyway, since RSS is enabled on most of these boards, here is how you can get to them:
If the URL of the site looks like http://forums.foo.com, the feed for the entire site should look like http://forums.foo.com/external.php?type=rss2 (use just “rss” if you want RSS 0.91).
You can also get the feed for a particular forum, go to the forum you want and note the forum ID, if the end of the URL looks like forumdisplay.php?f=23 then the ID is 23. The feed for that forum is http://forums.foo.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=23
Just my bad luck, new watch came BROKEN!!
So kindda made an impulse purchase on a watch, got it today and the crown came off when I tried to set the time!!
Amazingly some responses noted that this is not unusual with Swiss watches, but is this really what we expect from a watch with a list price of $6300???? Well, it could’ve been damaged during shipping too, but it was shipped UPS Next Day air with a slip that indicated it was insured and contained high value content (I asked why I had to sign twice and that was what the UPS guy told me), I would think they would at least handle it with care…
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Carnegie Mellon’s Ballbot could teach Segway a thing or two
Carnegie Mellon’s Ballbot could teach Segway a thing or two:
Those humanoid robots are all well and good if you’ve got 30 minutes to watch ASIMO manage a 360 degree turn, but some researchers at Carnegie Mellon have been spending some time trying to figure out a bot that could actually be useful in the here and now. Their result is the Ballbot, a 95 pound unit that balances on a single metal sphere, and is tall enough to look a person in the eye. The robot can manage a smooth floor easily, and is designed for navigating human environments. When it isn’t moving, the Ballbot has retractable “kickstands” to hold it up. The next step for the Ballbot is a head and pair of arms to help the robot balance and turn, and the eventual goal is a robot that is a useful helper to the elderly, disabled, or those in an office environment. We’re just looking forward to shouting “Ballbot, beer me!”
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Sherry’s gallery migrated to Flickr as well
Sherry finally got herself a Flickr “pro” subscription so I just helped migrated her snapshots from gallery to flickr, using my hacked version of gallery2flickr. It still works, so if anyone’s interested in ditching Gallery (1) for Flickr, check out the hack.
I also found a really nifty tool to backup your Flickr pics to your Mac.
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Finally got my Amex Butterfly card
OS X finally gets virtual desktops
Was checking out Leopard, nothing really revolutional like when they introduced Dashboard, but virtual desktop is nice, especially coz I got used to having them with window managers in X.
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